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The major rights holders' document obtained under the Freedom of Information Act
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Charles Addams, the American cartoonist who created the Addams family, has been commemorated in a Google doodle celebrating the centenary of his birth on 7 January.
Addams, who was (...) [The Guardian] Google+ saw 67m visits in November Search engine's social network has its most followers in US but looks like a bigger hit per capita in Canada and France
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